About Cameron Falls
Cameron Falls was a light-flowing waterfall that didn’t seem to have a whole lot of life left in it during our visit to Tamborine Mountain (in the Gold Coast Hinterland) in May 2008. Our visit happened to be on Mother’s Day so the place seemed busier than what we had expected. Sharing the experience with us was a large group of senior citizens that were up bright and early to do the walking tracks here, including the one taking in the falls. In any case, Julie and I thought this waterfalling experience offered more in the way of panoramas than the waterfall itself.
We began by embarking on a 1.3km walking track that immediately started off with an attractive panorama between trees towards the low lands to the east in the direction of the southernmost suburbs of Brisbane as well as the northernmost suburbs of the Gold Coast. We then followed a well-signed and fairly well-developed walking track under the shade of plenty of forest cover. The track eventually took us to the top of Cameron Falls (crossing a bridge over Sandy Creek) where shortly thereafter, we ended up at a lookout showing us the view of the falls you see at the top of this page as well as an uninterrupted panorama further downstream. Overall, we spent a little over an hour to complete this hike, including all the picture-taking and the relaxing at the panoramic views.
Incidentally, Tamborine National Park (at least the Witches Falls section of the park) was Queensland’s first national park, which was gazetted in 1908. This was to protect what was left of the rainforest and its native species, including some forms of timber which were amongst the resources sought after by early settlers for logging.
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